Writing in Tongues by Anita Norich Yiddish Learning "one that would forever rid

"one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin

A delightfully unconventional tale of a people

Approachable recipes for everything from soups to sweets go beyond the traditional

though nearly extinguished

Then one night

Writing in Tongues by Anita Norich Yiddish Learning "one that would forever ridWriting in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical